The First Universities

Author : Olaf Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521594318

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The First Universities by Olaf Pedersen Pdf

This is a general study of the development of higher education in Europe from antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages, set against a background of the social and political history of the period. It shows how the slender traditions of ancient learning, kept alive in the monastic and cathedral schools, was enriched by an enormous influx of knowledge from the Islamic world and how in consequence the schools developed into universities. These early institutions are examined from a variety of points of view, as institutions, as places where ideas spread and as points of interaction with local and national authority. Special attention is paid to early intellectual history and to the scientific disciplines and to the everyday life of the students and their teachers. The book is intended as a broad introduction to the subject for students of the history of education, but it will also attract general readers with only a slight knowledge of the subject.

Author : John C. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030013196

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A Brief History of Universities by John C. Moore Pdf

In this book, John C. Moore surveys the history of universities, from their origin in the Middle Ages to the present. Universities have survived the disruptive power of the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions, and the turmoil of two world wars—and they have been exported to every continent through Western imperialism. Moore deftly tells this story in a series of chronological chapters, covering major developments such as the rise of literary humanism and the printing press, the “Berlin model” of universities as research institutions, the growing importance of science and technology, and the global wave of campus activism that rocked the twentieth century. Focusing on significant individuals and global contexts, he highlights how the university has absorbed influences without losing its central traditions. Today, Moore argues, as universities seek corporate solutions to twenty-first-century problems, we must renew our commitment to a higher education that produces not only technicians, but citizens.

Author : Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350138650

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Utopian Universities by Miles Taylor,Jill Pellew Pdf

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds light on the social and cultural topography of the long 1960s. With an impressive geographic coverage - using case studies from Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia - the book explores how these universities have influenced academic disciplines and pioneered new types of teaching, architectural design and student experience. From educational reform in West Germany to the establishment of new institutions with progressive, interdisciplinary curricula in the Commonwealth, the illuminating case studies of this volume demonstrate how these universities shared in a common cause: the embodiment of 'utopian' ideals of living, learning and governance. At a time when the role of higher education is fiercely debated, Utopian Universities is a timely and considered intervention that offers a wide-ranging, historical dimension to contemporary predicaments.

Author : Hastings Rashdall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097792477

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The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall Pdf

Author : Roy Lowe,Yoshihito Yasuhara
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317543275

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The Origins of Higher Learning by Roy Lowe,Yoshihito Yasuhara Pdf

Higher education has become a worldwide phenomenon where students now travel internationally to pursue courses and careers, not simply as a global enterprise, but as a network of worldwide interconnections. The Origins of Higher Learning: Knowledge networks and the early development of universities is an account of the first globalisation that has led us to this point, telling of how humankind first developed centres of higher learning across the vast landmass from the Atlantic to the China Sea. This book opens a much-needed debate on the origins of higher learning, exploring how, why and where humankind first began to take a sustained interest in questions that went beyond daily survival. Showing how these concerns became institutionalised and how knowledge came to be transferred from place to place, this book explores important aspects of the forerunners of globalisation. It is a narrative which covers much of Asia, North Africa and Europe, many parts of which were little known beyond their own boundaries. Spanning from the earliest civilisations to the end of the European Middle Ages, around 700 years ago, here the authors set out crucial findings for future research and investigation. This book shows how interconnections across continents are nothing new and that in reality, humankind has been interdependent for a much longer period than is widely recognised. It is a book which challenges existing accounts of the origins of higher learning in Europe and will be of interest to all those who wish to know more about the world of academia.

Author : Heather Brook
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781922064837

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Universities in Transition by Heather Brook Pdf

Universities are social universes in their own right. They are the site of multiple, complex and diverse social relations, identities, communities, knowledges and practices. At the heart of this book are people enrolling at university for the first time and entering into the broad variety of social relations and contexts entailed in their ‘coming to know’ at, of and through university. For some time now the terms ‘transition to university’ and ‘first-year experience’ have been at the centre of discussion and discourse at, and about, Australian universities. For those university administrators, researchers and teachers involved, this focus has been framed by a number of interlinked factors ranging from social justice concerns to the hard economic realities confronting the contemporary corporatising university. In the midst of changing global economic conditions affecting the international student market, as well as shifting domestic politics surrounding university funding, the equation of dollars with student numbers has remained a constant, and has kept universities’ attention on the current ‘three Rs’ of higher education — recruitment, retention, reward — and, in particular, on the critical phase of students’ entry into the tertiary institution environment. By recasting ‘the transition to university’ as simultaneously and necessarily entailing a transition of university — indeed universities — and of their many and varied constitutive relations, structures and practices, the contributors to this book seek to reconceptualise the ‘first-year experience’ in terms of multiple and dynamic processes of dialogue and exchange amongst all participants. They interrogate taken-for-granted understandings of what ‘the university’ is, and consider what universities might yet become.

Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801880556

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The Universities of the Italian Renaissance by Paul F. Grendler Pdf

Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History from the American Historical AssociationSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time—including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei—the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype of today's research university. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive study of this most influential institution. In this magisterial study, noted scholar Paul F. Grendler offers a detailed and authoritative account of the universities of Renaissance Italy. Beginning with brief narratives of the origins and development of each university, Grendler explores such topics as the number of professors and their distribution by discipline, student enrollment (some estimates are the first attempted), famous faculty members, budget and salaries, and relations with civil authority. He discusses the timetable of lectures, student living, foreign students, the road to the doctorate, and the impact of the Counter Reformation. He shows in detail how humanism changed research and teaching, producing the medical Renaissance of anatomy and medical botany, new approaches to Aristotle, and mathematical innovation. Universities responded by creating new professorships and suppressing older ones. The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats—including increased student violence and competition from religious schools—ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

Author : Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521361060

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A History of the University in Europe: Volume 2, Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens Pdf

This is the second volume of a four-part History of the University in Europe, written by an international team of scholars under the general editorship of Professor Walter RÜegg, which covers the development of the university in Europe (both East and West) from its origins to the present day. Volume 2 attempts to situate the universities in their social and political context throughout the three centuries spanning the period 1500 to 1800.

Author : Hilde de Ridder-Symoens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 0521541131

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Universities in the Middle Ages by Hilde de Ridder-Symoens Pdf

This, the first In the series, is also the first volume on the medieval University as a whole to be published In over a century. It provides a synthesis of the intellectual, social, political and religious life of the early University, and gives serious attention to the development of classroom studies and how they changed with the coming of the Renaissance and the Reformation. Following the first stirrings of the University In the thirteenth century, the evolution of the University is traced from the original Corporation of masters and Scholars through the early development of the colleges. The second half of the book focuses on the century from the 1440s to 1540s, which saw the flowering of the University under Tudor patronage. In the decades preceding the Reformation many colleges were founded, the teaching structures reorganised and the curriculum made more humanistic. The place of Cambridge at the forefront of northern European universities was eventually assured when Henry VIII founded Trinity College In 1546, In the face of changes and difficulties experienced during the course of the Reformation.

Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004391123

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Jesuit Schools and Universities in Europe, 1548–1773 by Paul F. Grendler Pdf

A survey of Jesuit schools and universities across Europe from 1548 to 1773 by Paul F. Grendler. The article discusses organization, curriculum, pedagogy, enrollments, and relations with civil authorities with examples from France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and eastern Europe.

Author : John Gilmary Shea
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B98520

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Memorial of the First Century of Georgetown College, D. C. by John Gilmary Shea Pdf

Author : Rachel Gable
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691216614

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The Hidden Curriculum by Rachel Gable Pdf

A revealing look at the experiences of first generation students on elite campuses and the hidden curriculum they must master in order to succeed College has long been viewed as an opportunity for advancement and mobility for talented students regardless of background. Yet for first generation students, elite universities can often seem like bastions of privilege, with unspoken academic norms and social rules. The Hidden Curriculum draws on more than one hundred in-depth interviews with students at Harvard and Georgetown to offer vital lessons about the challenges of being the first in the family to go to college, while also providing invaluable insights into the hurdles that all undergraduates face. As Rachel Gable follows two cohorts of first generation students and their continuing generation peers, she discovers surprising similarities as well as striking differences in their college experiences. She reveals how the hidden curriculum at legacy universities often catches first generation students off guard, and poignantly describes the disorienting encounters on campus that confound them and threaten to derail their success. Gable shows how first-gens are as varied as any other demographic group, and urges universities to make the most of the diverse perspectives and insights these talented students have to offer. The Hidden Curriculum gives essential guidance on the critical questions that university leaders need to consider as they strive to support first generation students on campus, and demonstrates how universities can balance historical legacies and elite status with practices and policies that are equitable and inclusive for all students.

Author : Charles Homer Haskins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387087413

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The Rise of Universities by Charles Homer Haskins Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Simon Somerville Laurie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044020486809

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The Rise and Early Constitution of Universities by Simon Somerville Laurie Pdf

Author : Conal Condren,Stephen Gaukroger,Ian Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139459105

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The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe by Conal Condren,Stephen Gaukroger,Ian Hunter Pdf

In this groundbreaking collection of essays the history of philosophy appears in a fresh light, not as reason's progressive discovery of its universal conditions, but as a series of unreconciled disputes over the proper way to conduct oneself as a philosopher. By shifting focus from the philosopher as proxy for the universal subject of reason to the philosopher as a special persona arising from rival forms of self-cultivation, philosophy is approached in terms of the social office and intellectual deportment of the philosopher, as a personage with a definite moral physiognomy and institutional setting. In so doing, this collection of essays by leading figures in the fields of both philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher, and to the institutional and larger political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place.